W.C. Handy and Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison demonstrated the first talking motion picture with the____.

Thomas Edison gained credit for inventing the _____ to improve the telephone.

Thomas Edison...

• mainly improved on the work of others.

• took credit for the work of other inventors.

• was a ruthless man.

• all of the above.

Handy was the first to _____

• publish blues music.

• invent the electric vote recorder.

• establish income tax.

• make talking movies.

W.C. Handy was a(n) _____

• composer and musician

• inventor

• the 28th President of the United States.

• started out as a teacher before becoming president of Princeton University.

W.C. Handy's father____________

• went to his first performance.

• bought him a guitar.

• bought him a cornet.

• did none of these.

W.C. Handy was known as the Godfather of ______________.

• Soul

• The Blues

• Ragtime

• Jazz

The phonograph is the predecessor to the_________.

• telephone

• radio

• telegraph

• record player

Nursery Favorites with the Edison Players Quartet Orchestra was the first

• stage play

• opera

• talking movie

• ballet